Unlike other local towns, Pembroke is not seeking a temporary ban on medical marijuana dispensaries. Instead, officials are sticking to their original plan of limiting where the shops can open.

On Monday, Pembroke’s planning board hosted a public hearing to discuss a proposed zoning bylaw that defines where marijuana dispensaries can open. The bylaw will be voted on at the April 23 town meeting.

The bylaw, if approved, would prohibit dispensaries from opening outside Pembroke’s adult-entertainment-use overlay district, which is off Route 139 east of Route 3. The law would also prevent shops from opening within 1,500 feet of a school, child-care center or an alcohol-serving establishment.

The planning board voted 6-0 on Monday not to support the bylaw because it wants to make changes to the policy before town meeting. Chairman Dan Taylor said his board and the board of selectmen will propose amendments to the bylaw on the town meeting floor.

For example, he said, officials may ask that the separation restriction be reduced from 1,500 feet to 500 feet, thus expanding the area where dispensaries can open. Also, he said, language describing the potential “adverse impacts” of dispensaries may be stricken from the law because it stigmatizes a policy supported by voters in November’s election.

“It’s not that we don’t support a bylaw, we just don’t support the existing bylaw as it is written,” Taylor said.

He said officials are not interested in imposing a one-year moratorium on pot dispensaries. Officials in Quincy, Braintree, Scituate, Marshfield, Hingham and Halifax are considering moratoriums to buy more time while the state figures out how to regulate them.

Pembroke residents must be on the town’s list of registered voters by April 3 to be eligible to vote at the April 23 town meeting.